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Accepted Paper:
Teachers in socialism: authorities or regime servants?
Monika Vrzgulova
(Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Paper short abstract:
Paper is focused on one professional group. It will discuss the recollections of former and current teachers aimed on the professional life, work condition and self-reflection during communist regime in Slovakia
Paper long abstract:
Paper is focused on the professional group of teachers. It will discuss the recollections of former and current teachers aimed on their professional life, work condition and self-reflection during communist regime in Slovakia. What did it mean to be teacher during socialism in Slovakia (1948-1989) from their individual perspective, what kind of challenges had to be faced, how they brought their personal values and the pressure of the communist ideology in balance? How is the transition of these individual memories to the social memory, how is the connection to the memory of their families and how is the relation between their memories and cultural and political memory of socialist era in Slovakia? (I used terms social, cultural and political memory following Aleida Assmann, 2006: 45-96) Paper will present work in progress of my oral history research in the project Current images of socialism in Slovakia.
Aleida Assmann, Shadows of Trauma. Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity. New York 2016.